A symbol in literature is something that represents something else. There symbolism is a figure of speech where an object, person, or situation has another meaning other than its literal meaning.

Symbolism in the Play

A major theme is colonialism, and each brother represents a phase of opposition towards colonial rule Gros-Jean represents strength against the opposition, but the devil represents colonial oppressor.

Mi-Jean represents intelligence against the opposition,Ti-Jean represents belief in God, common sense, and taking advice from other people, like his animal friends.

The Devil and the many masks he wears represent colonial oppression.

Bolom represents the community that wouldn’t be born, and when he is born, it represents the community that can come to be Morality— faith in God is better than strength and intelligence, Ti-Jean is compared to David

resource: Texas, U. (2017). A Summary of Ti-Jean and His Brothers

We have a basic ideas of the types of writing that will be on the CSEC English A exam. We also know what is Expository Writing. So today, we are going to explore the types of Expository Writing on the January 2018-2023 exam paper. In order to do this, we are going to refer the syllabus (please note that reference is taken from the updated and original versions of the syllabus).

The syllabus refers to Expository writing as Informative Discourse (pages 13-17 old syllabus) and (pages 8-14 in the updated syllabus). The topics listed below are based on the activities that are listed on the before mentioned informative discourse pages .

Business Letters

Report Writing

Statistical Report

Job Applications

Expository Essays

Writing

Minutes

Notices

Emails

Completing forms

It is important to not that this post makes reference to Section B of the CSEC English A Paper 2. This section is marked out of 30 marks.

This poem briefly states the rituals surround bird shooting season. Stanza one of the poem shows the behaviour of the men during the season ‘make marriage with their guns’ and ‘My father’s house turns macho’.

In contrast, stanza two shows the behaviour of the women during the season. Women prepare food items for the man to take with them.

In stanza 3 the men prepare to leave in the dark and finally in stanza 4 we see the contrasting reaction between the boys (longing to grow) and the girls (feeling sorry for the birds).